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Common Causes of Fire and Safety Measures

Fires affect thousands of companies each year resulting in injury, lost customer trust and building damage. By establishing a fire prevention and preparedness program, you can help avoid injuries to your employees and visitors, costly damages, and potential fines to your business. Below are some best practices to help prepare your facility for a fire emergency. The faster response helps to avoid damage will occur due to the fire, fire detector alert for response. Emergency response is easier when everyone knows their respective responsibilities. Establish a detailed fire emergency evacuation plan that dictates how to respond, when to respond, and identifies a path of egress. If employees have special needs or require special attention, address these details in the plan. Fire is the cause of serious damage and injuries : Approximately one-half of home fire deaths occur in homes without smoke alarms. Most residential fires occur during the winter months. Alcohol use contribut...

Checklist points to fight with fire effectively

Today almost building which is commercial or non-commercial are made with inbuilt fire fighting solution. Our fire fighting equipment is also very efficient to give great safety and save us from the major fire risks. But still, there are many cases registered where the fire has generated a high loss to lives, money, and assets. This is the time to stay safe in such type of critical conditions. We can make a checklist to avoid mistakes to reduce the chances of any type of fire loss. Below are some points you can include in your checklist. Whenever you leave your workplace make sure to check the following points in your checklist: Main power is off or not Your fire fighting equipment is working properly or not. The security agents or rest staffs are trained on the fire fighting emergency or not. Is there any machine or equipment left on then switch it off. Nothing is interrupting ventilation No oil, gas, or fuel leakage found in the machines, generators and other electronicall...